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'T'here was only an outsIde chance that Paltner would be able to Inount one of his old-titne rushes and Inake up six strokes on the leader-he doesn't putt like the old Paltner anVlnore-but I was drawn to hitn any- . way. He got off with a birdie, chipping in froln the fringe, but two faded approach shots killed his InOlnentuln and quickly put hiln one over par for the round. Ordinarily, that kInd of scoring would have knocked Palmer out of the running then and there, but Barber started off very shakily, Inissing his pars on the second and third, and when he continued to hit at least one poor shot per hole and failed to par three of the next five holes, this not only cancelled out the errors that Paltner and the other contenders had made hut bunched the field tightly- so tightly that late in the afternoon, when Barber final1y surrendered the lead to Moodv after a double bogey on the twelfth, no less than six golfers stood within two strokes of the new leader. Paltner was one of theIn-two strokes back. On the fifteenth, the rela- tively short par 4, his challenge seelned over when he hooked hIs drive deep into the woods, since his only opening back to th e fairway was a six-foot gap between two trees at the edge of the rough. Here he sUlnmoned one of the Inost relnarkable shots of his career. HoodIng what looked like a 4-iron, he played a low, intentional hook. The ball shot cleanly through the narrow opening and, turning left as if on cue, bounded toward the green, Inissed the fron t bunker by a yard, and rolled dead twenty-five feet short of the pIn. The Pahner of 1962 would have holed that birdie putt. The Pahner of 1969 took three to get down, and that was it. At length, the Open boiled down to a two-Inan fight between Moody and Rosburg. When Moody bogeyed the fourteenth, they stood all even-lover par for the distance. Rosburg was playing the seventeenth, a four-hun- dred-and-thirty-sIx-yard par 4, when this news reached him. He proceeded to miss the green with his long iron but saved his 4 with a fine exnlos;on shot 1. and a seven-foot putt. The eighteenth, a four-hundred-and-thIrty-one-yard par 4, was all uphil1 for Rosburg. After pulling his drive into trees and finding the bunker before the green with his approach, he was confronted with the shot the pros consider alnong the Inost difficult in the galne-the long sand shot. F rOln ninety feet out, he caIne through wIth an absolutely Inagnificent stroke: he put the ball three feet from the cup. And then he went and Inissed the putt. At that Inolnent, Moody was scramblIng out his 4 on the ::,even- teenth, and a 4 on the eighteenth would now win for hÎIn. ", He could not have played the hole better: a huge two - hundred - and - seven- ty-five-yard dnve down the fai rw a y; a firlnlr struck 8-1ron twelve feet to the right of the flag; two safe putts. The new chalnpion's score: 71-70- 68-72-281. W HILE a good many people, on learning that the Open had been won by Orville Moody, reacted by giv- Ing the nalne the old "Sonny Tufts?" reading, his victory, though not expect- ed, certainly did not cOlne as a cOln- plete surprise to anyone who follows golf closely. The buffs who knew that the new Open chalnpion had prevIousl) won no tournalnent more illustrious than the Korean Open (Sergeant Moody took it three times) also knew that this past winter and spring he was one of the most reliable performers on the pro tour and had earned $38,000 In prize Inoney-an nnpressive haul, particularly for a so-so putter. U nhke Lee Trevino, the 1968 Open chalnpi- on, who is one of his closest friends, the 1969 chalnpion is not an overly in- teresting player to watch, but he is a very capahle shotlnaker and should prove to be no flash in the pan. He also responds we11 to pressure. If he didn't, he would never have got to pIa) in the Open, for in the Local Qualifying Round at Dallas, he had a comparatIve off day, and with nine holes to go it was apparent that he would have to pIck up a couple of birdies to be sure of surviving. He birdied a par 5, and on the short seventeenth he holed out a hunker shot for a second birdie. His thirty-six-hole total was 149-a stroke below the cutoff score. After that, things caIne easier. -HERBERT WARREN WIND . The witnesses appeared before the fluuse a Washington-based organiza- tion financed by cIgarette manufacturers. . . . -The T,mes Wait till Pearson finds that out!